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E. JOUBERT & J. H. WHITE. Buck-Board."

No. 223,920. Patented Jan. 27, 1880 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD JOUBERT AND JAMES H.'WHITE, .Ol GrLENSv FALLS, NEW YORK.

BUCKBOARD- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,920, dated January 27, 1880.

Application filed December 18, 1879. i

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, EDWARD JOUBERI and JAMES H. WVHITE, of Glens Falls, in the county of WVa-rren, and in the State otNew .York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring Buckboards; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to backboard-wagons; and it consist in a self-supporting side-spring attachment as a riser to raise the wagonbody from the boards or slats, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our invention appertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe its construction and operation,referring to the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a buckboardwagon embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with the body removed.

AA represent thefront and rear head-blocks, on which are secured the boards or slats O C. On top of these boards or slats is a central cross-bar, D, and over each end of said cross-bar is passed a semi-elliptic spring, F, made of one or more leaves, and having its ends inserted and held in keepers a a on the ends of cross bars G Gr, which are fastened to the boards or slats O on their under side a suitable distance from the ends.

H is the wagon-body, secured on top of the springs F above the center cross-bar, D.

By the use of the springs F as a riser, raising the body off from the boards or slats, we avoid the otherwise disagreeable tremb1e, rattle, and drumming of the feet, canceling or avoiding the most serious objection to buckboard-wagons.

We are aware that springs have been arranged in connection with and below the buck- ;board of a wagon; but in such case the seat or body rests directly on the board and is but very little raised above the axles. In our invention the springs are so arranged as to elevate the seat or body above the boards or slats.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is 

